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Totally wiped out.

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The carboot sale was yesterday. It was not easy to get up at 5.30 AM, i can tell you that. But the drive there was nice, you could see the mist on the polder fields and that is actually very pretty. We arrived in good time and set up our stuff. Mostly books, some DVD's and CD's and Sandy had her cherished teddies with her. This is the view we had when we turned around .And Nina loved playing on the beach with her ball. Did we sell well? Yes and no. Dutch books went fast, DVD and CD's went okay and I had one customer who took about 30 of my english language books. So all in all not bad. Only the ending of the day was not so good. It had been a mostly bright sunny day with some clouds coming over. But quarter to four it started to rain! And I mean rain. From dry and sunny one moment it went to a torrential downpour the next. We were not able to save all the books, when I am less tired than today I have to go and see what I can still save. All three of us were drenched to the...